Twitterverse chimes in about Disney-Star Wars deal

The first KABOOM you heard Tuesday afternoon probably was related to the news that Walt Disney Co. is buying Lucasfilm for $4 billion and producing more "Star Wars" films, including the so-called "Episode 7" in 2015.

The second, slightly more muffled KABOOM was Twitter blowing up with the news. In general, Disney fans seem elated, "Star Wars" purists less so, but the Twitterverse managed to include humor, politics, theme park expansions and superstorm Sandy in its posts (plus a universe of "Leia is now a Disney Princess" remarks). Here's a sampling, left mostly in the voice of the tweeter: